Makin' Do Tuesday: Emergency Subsitutions

Welcome to Makin' Do Tuesday!

Needing to make an emergency substitution while cooking may be the epitome of making do. That is probably why most cookbooks have a list of them somewhere.

Buttermilk can be substituted by adding enough regular milk to a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to make a cup. Let it sit for about five minutes before you use it.

Yogurt and sour cream appear to be just about interchangeable. There are some consistency differences, so I would supposed it would depend on what you were cooking.

1/4 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp cream of tarter will substitute for a tsp of baking powder.

Adding 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt to a cup of regular flour will give you self-rising flour.

If you have self-rising and need regular, just omit the baking powder and salt from the recipe.

Make unsweetened chocolate by adding a tbs of oil to every three tbs of cocoa.

You can make whole wheat cake flour by taking two tbs of corn starch and adding enough whole wheat pastry flour to make a cup.

You can find a ton of other cooking substitutions here.

Sometimes though, you run out of other things beside cooking ingredients. What then?

Use paper towels or napkins as  make shift coffee filters.

Speaking of coffee filters, you can use them for tea bags. Just put your loose leaf tea in the center and tie it up with cooking twine or something similar.

Baking soda works great for both toothpaste and deoderant.

Olive oil and lemon juice make furniture polish.

Use vinegar for glass cleaner.

Don't have time to shampoo? Sprinkle baby powder or cornstarch on your head and brush out.

Women used to dab a little vanilla behind their ears in lieu of perfume.

This is just my opinion, but I think that once you understand how some things work, its easy to come up with substitutes for what you need. You may have to think outside the box, but that is what makin' do is all about.

See ya tomorrow!

Connie